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Three-fourths of waste in Jakarta’s notoriously polluted rivers is plastic

Sumatra villagers protest iron mine allegedly operating despite stop order

A 13-year fight against gold mining in Colombian community marches on

Encircled by plantations, a Sumatran Indigenous community abides changing times

As their land and water turns saline, Kenyan communities take on salt firms

Water-stressed Bangladesh looks to recharge its fast-depleting aquifers

In world first, Chile to ban single-use food and beverage products over three years

From agribusiness to oil to nuclear power and submarines: welcome to anti-environmental Putin-Bolsonaro alliance (commentary)

Turkey’s authoritarian development ignores planetary boundaries

With plantation takeover, Brazil’s Indigenous Pataxó move to reclaim their land

In restoring polluted rivers, Indonesia looks at restocking endemic fish

On hazardous mine tailings dams, ‘safety first’ should be the rule (commentary)

Nickel, Tesla and two decades of environmental activism: Q&A with leader Raphaël Mapou

All eyes on Tesla as it invests in a troubled nickel mine

Indonesia’s Sangihe islanders score legal victory over mining company

For Ecuador’s A’i Cofán leaders, Goldman Prize validates Indigenous struggle

Proposed copper and gold mine threatens the world’s ‘second Amazon’ in PNG

Illegal mining threatens one of the last forest links between the Andes and Ecuador’s Amazon

At 30, Brazil’s Yanomami reserve is beset by mining, malaria and mercury

Geoengineering Earth’s climate future: Straight talk with Wake Smith

Boom and bust on Lake Victoria: Q&A with author Mark Weston

Tropical mammals under rising chemical pollution pressure, study warns

California subpoenas ExxonMobil over plastic pollution

Better deep-bore wells aim to stop Indonesia’s groundwater waste

Colombian Indigenous community waits in poverty as courts weigh ownership of ancestral land

Stranded coal barge spills cargo, disrupts fishery in Indonesian waters

Protecting water by conserving forests puts communities in Mexico to the test

All coked up: The global environmental impacts of cocaine

On a Honduran island, a community effort grows to protect its precious reefs

Chemical recycling: ‘Green’ plastics solution makes more pollution, says report

Pharmaceutical water pollution detected deep in the Brazilian Amazon

Indigenous communities in Ecuador struggle with the aftermath of another oil spill

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